I HAD not realised that Roy Templeman, York's chief planner, had arrived at York from Coventry. (Man who planned to change York, May 21).

That explains a lot.

Although it will have been erected before his time there, York should think itself lucky that no one has tried to emulate Coventry's notoriously stark ring-road within sight of the Minster.

Annie Wright,

Aston Science Park,

Birmingham.

Updated: 11:22 Monday, May 24, 2004